Eve Cocks: Your interest in uncovering lesser-known histories of sites and people encouraged you to go out in the streets and meet the people in your photographs and films. Can you tell us about the relationships you build with your subjects? Tobias Zielony: When I started photographing young people in the UK, in the late […]
Eve Cocks: What is Unfinished Art Space and why did you choose ‘Unfinished’ as a title? Margerita Pulè: Unfinished Art Space is an independent, artist-run, nomadic contemporary art space. It is run by Unfinished Foundation, a registered NGO with three co-founders (Karen Xuereb, Karsten Xuereb and I). We’ve been running this new initiative since July […]
We are over-saturated with depictions of nudity in visual art; nonetheless it still intrigues most of us whilst causing discomfort to others. Gallerist Nicole Parnis discusses NUD. A NAKED COLLECTIVE – currently on exhibit at DESKO Art Gallery until the 7th of December. Eve Cocks: ‘NUD. A Naked Collective’ is the first group show exhibited […]
Eve Cocks: Sara Cwynar’s work brings to mind Marshall McLuhan’s notion of ‘social myths’. In his post-WW2 study of popular culture (The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man) McLuhan republishes actual advertisements to examine their true implications and comment on how the ‘collective public mind’ is being manipulated, exploited and controlled by the ideal and […]
“There is a connection and relationship between human, nature, urbanisation and industrialisation. Intimate and mystical coloured shapes in my paintings reflect on current environmental issues and our responsibilities to the natural world.” Wioletta Kulewska Eve Cocks: ABACÁ is your second solo painting exhibition in Malta. Wioletta Kulewska: ABACÁ presents six new works which I created […]
Eve Cocks: This year seems to have been an important year for you. You’ve had your debut of your documentary short From Malta to Motor City, a solo show at BLITZ, as well as other collaborative projects with international performance artists, and now… SEMPRE VIVA. How does SEMPRE VIVA tie up to these projects and […]
to be [defined] is an artistic anthropological exhibition dealing with past and contemporary displacement displayed through discursive and concrete structures which put forward a variety of perspectives. So a dialogue is created between natives and those who come from overseas. Through a succession of places, objects and imaginaries, both familiar and unsettling, but all related […]
Here are a few snapshots of Valletta Contemporary‘s current exhibition: Here & Now. From video art to fine art painting, the exhibition features work by nine emerging local artists whose work invites the viewer to reflect upon notions of space, nostalgia, contemporary ‘body politics’ and more. Here & Now is being curated by gallery director […]
Being a Dada enthusiast, I was pleased to have recently participated in one of FRAGMENTA’s public art interventions Subversive Semiotics – a happening for a bill board. Held in collaboration with artist-photographer David Pisani, Subversive Semiotics presented the audience with a Dada mise-en-scène, where pseudo names and irony were used to promote reflection about issues […]
Artists Mario Abela and Justin Falzon discuss their current exhibition at Arte…Gallery, their experience of painting together and their reflection and exploration of life and death. Eve Cocks [EC]: So how long have you known each other for? Justin Falzon [JF]: Since 1997 or 1998. Mario Abela [MA]: Definitely since sixth form, and we’ve been […]